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Online Communities and New School Architecture

I attended a workshop at the American Architecture Foundation on Great Schools by Design to talk about how to design learning spaces for schools in Los Angeles and New York City. Listening to architects and school leaders talk about the actual shape and functionality of classrooms and school spaces, I realized that the architecture of the virtual learning space is as important as the physical space.

These students created a centralized web site for their school and recently won a Digital Open award, a tech expo for teens.

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What’s in Your Head Matters More than What’s in Your Backpack

When we talk about school quality and achievement, we tend to get caught up in funding, teachers, textbooks, and test scores. But what do you really need to learn? An open mind? A quiet opportunity for reflection? The discipline to keep trying? Enough curiosity to ask a question?

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India’s Human Capital and Educational Technology

If you think the U.S. has a drop out problem, India has the world’s largest population of children and 53% of children who start school drop out by 8th grade. The government plans to double annual education expenditures and remake the nation’s schools. A panel led by Dilip Thakore, Publisher and Editor, Education World, at the Milken Institute discussed India’s Human Capital: Educating the World’s Largest Population of Children, the opportunities to reform India’s education system both in terms of curricula and investment opportunities.

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Writing for the Web: Is Anyone Reading?

I’m a writer who specializes in writing for the Web and I’m a reader. Lately, I feel like I’m going out of fashion. I feel like my grandmother who lived to be 100 years old and could no longer find comfortable shoes. Her feet had conformed to a certain heel height and shoe width sometime during the first 60 years of her life. Shoe makers stopped making it–no market.

Dorotheas Closet Vintage White Mesh Shoe

Dorothea's Closet Vintage

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Better School District Web Sites

We all spend a lot of time online and learn navigation by the text and visual clues used by the Web sites we frequent most. What about school district Web sites? They are particularly challenging to design, organize, and maintain. Here are a few reasons why:

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